Messages in this thread | | | Date | 11 Dec 2001 22:45:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: On re-working the major/minor system |
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hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 09.12.01 in <9v0mo1$ms$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:
> By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
> > > The C library, and the POSIX standard, etc, etc. > > > > I think you'll find that there is *NOTHING* in either the C standard, > > POSIX, or the Austin future-{POSIX,UNIX} standard that knows about major > > or minor numbers. > > > > It's not "future" anymore... Austin is now IEEE 1003.1-2001 and thus > the new POSIX standard.
As of this Friday, yes.
> Anyway, look for things like tar, cpio, ISO 9660 and that class of > standards.
Well, at least in Austin there is neither tar, cpio, nor 9660.
You are, however, right insofar as there's pax, which for ustar format has devmajor and devminor fields of 8 octets each, which contain unspecified information. (cpio format just has the rdev field.)
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